Didn't want to return to teaching High School Agriculture. Became salesman for Church Point Wholesale Grocery & Liquor Co. from 1945 to 1989.

Thoughts on the 58th Bomb Wing:

I'm satisfied that I played a part in helping to protect our country from the evil forces of another trying to take what is not theirs. Being in the Air Force and particularly the 58th Bomb Wing satisfied my ambition to fly though that ambition did not include harming other people. With every bomb I dropped I prayed that it hit its target and not innocent civilians. I'm grateful to have made several life-long friends and was able to return safely to my home and family.

Comments:

I kept and identified a tag from a bomb from every mission and included them in an album with pictures and brochures. My children and grandchildren enjoy them and get a sense of what it was like. I prayed that they would never have to live through similar circumstances but I can see that it was not to be!